Not sure why that is, but I have 32 GB of RAM and I would like my system to utilize it as much as possible, but as you can see in the screenshot, the system is only using 5.66 GB of the physical RAM, but swap is still being used in a high number. Is this normal? Should I lower the swappiness to lower than 10? Should I let it be?
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swap is usually significantly slower than ram; are you certain that you wan to use that instead?
I think you misread, OP is saying the system is using to little ram and too much swap.
that makes much more sense; thanks for the correction.
The other way around. I want the system to use all of my RAM. I paid good money for it, might as well use it all. Unused RAM is wasted RAM, right?
i see it as more a capability that i don't always need beyond the minimum; but if you feel about it like this, you can also disable swap all together.
Have you ever tried just not having swap? Maybe don't have a swap partition and see what results you get. I think there's even a command that turns your swap completely off, too. Google "swapoff". Good luck my friend.